Daily Journal: 10 June

God’s Glory

How much do we meditate on God's glory and what that means for our reality? The limitations of our own minds can’t grasp all that God is and His awesome power.

God is not an exalted man. He is not an image or a spirit of a man. He is a supreme being, who created all from nothing and rules over all. He looks different. He thinks different. He is different. All that He created He somehow encompasses and reflects in form. Why do we want more?

Exodus 33:12, 14 (NLV)

Moses said to the Lord, “See, You say to me, ‘Lead this people!’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me.

The Lord said, “I Myself will go with you. I will give you rest.”

Exodus 33:19, 20 (NLV)

And God said, “I will have My goodness pass in front of you. I will make the name of the Lord known in front of you. I will have loving-kindness and loving-pity for anyone I want to.” But He said, “You cannot see My face. For no man can see Me and live!”

Moses experienced the visual and physical presence of God.

He was asking for a physical person to walk alongside him. He’d already been promised an angel to go before Him (verse 2), but God gave him more. Himself. He even showed Himself to Moses physically. That experience, and His continued manifested presence, enabled Moses to complete the exodus with God’s people and return to the land God appointed for them. But God didn’t allow Moses to see His face.

What is in God’s face that a person cannot withstand?

When Moses came back from Mt Sinai after spending time with God, his face shone with so much radiance the leaders of Israel asked him to cover his face because they were afraid to come near him (Exodus 34:30).

When Jesus’ transfiguration demonstrated his eternal glory before his death and resurrection, the bible describes it like this:

Matthew 17:2 (NIV)

There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light.

The throne of God is described in Revelation, where our future is foretold. We know the written prophesies in the bible of Jesus have been fulfilled and now we are seeing the written prophesies in the bible of the end times taking place around us. We understand the expressions about God's physicality can barely describe the magnificence and power and glory that reflect His true brilliance and beauty because the mind cannot comprehend it. We couldn't live if we saw Him in all His fullness.

We can behave sometimes as if He's not enough, but in fact, He is too much for us. We just can't see Him.

Revelation 4:1-3 (GWT)

After these things I saw a door standing open in heaven. I heard the first voice like a trumpet speaking to me. It said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after this.” Instantly, I came under the Spirit’s power. I saw a throne in heaven, and someone was sitting on it. The one sitting there looked like gray quartz and red quartz. There was a rainbow around the throne which looked like an emerald.

Other expressions of God and heaven and celestial creatures, particularly throughout Revelation, Ezekiel and Daniel are astounding and beyond human comprehension.

We cannot understand the brilliance and radiance and unearthly beauty of God’s Presence but we must know it is always more than enough. It was enough for Moses, a man, to withstand the rigours of the call to bring salvation to the Israelites from Egypt. It was enough for Jesus, God in human flesh, to withstand the rigours of his torturous death and to be raised from the dead and bring salvation to the world! It is enough for us to walk out our life, completing the tasks and purposes God has set for us to do.

Think about the brilliance of His presence in your life, and then walk on.

Exodus 33:14 (NLV)

The Lord said, “I Myself will go with you. I will give you rest.”